Rounding Corners - Inner and Outer

1

Is there planned support for specifying different values for both the inner and outer corner when rounding them, similar to the app roundingUFO?

2

You can currently do that only in the custom parameter, by specifying a negative rounding value in the Value string.

3

if you don’t select anything, it will only pick up outer corners. Then select the inner corners and round them.

4

Excellent, thank you both!

I should note that when doing this via custom parameter, the preview that it renders is significantly off from what the generated font looks like, which may be a bug (or I may be doing something wrong).

Edit: turns out I WAS doing something wrong :flushed: – I had some messed up path directions.

5

I prefer the other method - to do them all at once automatically and then spot-correct as needed, e.g.

Filter GlyphsFilterRoundCorner; 30; 1
Filter GlyphsFilterRoundCorner; -35; 1

The problem with those is that if you work with UFO they get lost in other programs. It would be fantastic if these could be done with a slider bar / live preview.

6

What does the ufo have to do with the sliders? There is a difference between applying the filters manually and applying them at export time.

I don’t like sliders and need a lot convincing to add them ;).

7

Then, either work with .glyphs files, or write a script that selects the appropriate corners so you can apply the rounding afterwards.

8

Thanks, @mekkablue – I have now spent a few days with the Glyphs ecosystem and have find that I agree about using .glyphs files. I was hesitant at first because I was used to UFO, but it’s easy to export. I am going to start poking around the Glyphs API :smile:

Thanks again both! And woohoo, a 2.0 manual today.